Letter: Roads around Wimborne won’t cope with extra development

I read with dismay and disbelief the articles on housing in and around Wimborne.

We have obviously known about this for many months, but I naively believed sanity would prevail.

The overdevelopment, loss of wild life habitat, flood prevention and disruption to people's lives has been commented on, but not the traffic situation. It is already becoming impossible to go anywhere in town easily during rush hour and school times, which seem to start earlier and go on longer.

Trying to leave or enter the town via Canford Bottom roundabout with its out of phase lights (so much for the promise made at the pre-construction meetings that local traffic would be unaffected!), or over the bridge to Poole, is already time consuming, stressful and damaging to the environment.

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Wimborne is not really a town any more consisting mainly of bars, cafes, expensive clothes outlets and charity shops. It has lost the hardware store, haberdashers and outdoor clothing shop within recent months and residents are having to travel out of town far more frequently. Public transport is being cut and is not a viable option for most residents anyway.